This is a list of some of the people doing online science, and for each of them, an example of their most empirical work.

Written

Adam Mastroianni blogging at Experimental History — Things could be better

Scott Alexander blogging at Astral Codex Ten (formerly at Slate Star Codex) — Eight Hundred Slightly Poisoned Word Games

Gwern blogging at Gwern.net — Treadmill desk observations

Aella blogging at Knowingless — Fetish Tabooness and Popularity

Dynomite blogging at Dynomight (and substack) – Faren-height

ExFatLoss blogging at Experimental Fat Loss — Losing 43lbs in 144 days on the ex150 diet

Collin Lysford blogging at Desystemize — Representation and Uncertainty

Krinn on tumblr as @krinndnz — An Ad-Hoc, Informally-Specified, Bug-Ridden, Single-Subject Study Of Weight Loss Via Potassium Supplementation And Exercise Without Dieting

Elizabeth Van Nostrand blogging at Aceso Under Glass — Luck-based medicine: My resentful story of becoming a medical miracle

Troof blogging at Troof — What I learned gathering thousands of nootropic ratings

Anabology blogging at longest levers — honey-diet.html

Ruth Daniel blogging at The Righteous Mugwort — Long Ago and Farfalle

Violet Henriques blogging at CounterfeitBees — Sleep 1.5

Alex Chernavsky writing at various places — Potassium and Weight Loss

CuoreDiVetro on LessWrong — My Effortless Weightloss Story: A Quick Runthrough

Siggi Prendergast / Grillbert — The Best Antibiotic for Acne is Non-Prescription

The Turner Twins — 40 vs 20 minute workout

JD Stillwater blogging at Run Deep — I Put a Toaster in the Dishwasher (see also this replication by Nehaveigur)

METREP blogging at the same — 16lbs of fat loss & 2.5 months later on the potato diet

Video

Explosions&Fire — Yellow Powder: Let’s solve unsolved alchemy

William Osman — How Much Sawdust Can You Put In A Rice Crispy?

justinthetrees — Can I taste between different species of sawdust baked into loaves of bread?

ESOTERICA — I Re-Created a 400 Year Old Alchemy Potion for Depression…and then TRIED IT!

Tom Scott plus — I don’t like coffee. Can James Hoffmann change that? 

Emil Abrahamsson — Hangboard training 2 Times Per Day for 30 Days 

Monsieur Phi — Je teste votre imagination… Les résultats sont surprenants!

Last updated 10/28/24